To see our local business leaders offer their time and expertise to nurture that growth through a careers presentation, warms the heart.

The high school presentation was a small but fundamentally important step in helping build our community of tomorrow.

Local business chamber president Mike Broekman said it himself: “Youth are the future of the town”.

We can whinge all we want how today’s generation just doesn’t get it, how things are not like they used to be. But truth is, folk have been saying that for nearly as long as time itself.

Our town’s youth have enormous potential and it’s up to us to harness it, capture it and use our life experience to guide them toward the countless career opportunities available these days.

It’s an old cliche but the world really is their oyster.

Whether their dream job is as a high-flying, corporate executive beyond Gunnedah’s small town limits or plying their trade locally in the workshop alongside mates in familiar surroundings – it doesn’t matter, as long they are happy doing it.

Jobs will come and so will the skills. Careers change and people change but it’s all part of the big journey we call life.

What was once common practice, particularly in country areas, for the average Aussie to start and finish their careers at the same workplace is no longer the case. 

Today’s workplaces seldom retain the same employee for any longer than a couple of years. It is now common to change careers multiple times during our working lives.

And that’s not a bad phenomenon.

Change is inevitable and for the most part, a good thing.

It can build creativity, develop our thinking and train our minds into looking at something differently.

Experts in this field of change are our youth. They are better positioned than anyone to tackle the issues which surround it.

Give the kids a chance and they will exceed your expectations.

Sure there are a few bad eggs in the lot but it’s no different to the rest of society, which probably should know better anyway.

So here’s to an even bigger, brighter future for the great little town we’re all lucky to call home, Gunnedah.